Single-player games like Deadline Escape
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Deadline Escape, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Never Be Alone
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Never Be Alone is an open-world zombie survival game designed for solo play and seamless co-op. Face the apocalypse alone or survive together in a world reclaimed by nature 10 years after the outbreak.
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Cold Sweat
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadline Escape.
Cold Sweat is a PvE single player extraction shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. Collect loot, complete missions for traders, upgrade your base, customize your firearms, and shoot your way through other survivors and the undead.
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CHEMISTS: Area of infection
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
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The Refuge
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Serve the A.R.C organization. Infiltrate infested zones, complete contracts, and extract with your resources. Upgrade your facilities and complete quests to unlock new services. An intense PvE extraction where the difficulty increases with your ambitions.
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Infect: The Last Stand
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Experience brutal Hardcore PvPvE survival powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every decision matters, every step could be your last, and every sound you hear might be your final one. Do you have what it takes to survive the hunt?
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Exit Ways
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadline Escape.
🛠️🔫🚁Test your luck in the extraction shooter with survival elements. Build your camp, exterminate the contaminated and evacuate the civilians.
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ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
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GRIDLANDS
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
GRIDLANDS is a PvE extraction shooter set in a fallen world where sentient machines hunt what remains of humanity. Scavenge, survive, and extract through hostile industrial dead zones where every run could be your last.
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SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Deadline Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadline Escape.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.